Tanner was 7 of 11 from the field, including 6 of 9 on 3-pointers, for coach Mike Jones' experienced Highlanders, now 3-0. Polite added 11 rebounds for a double-double, and RU’s Travis Fields — a former Norcom High and Old Dominion player — scored 11 points before limping off with 1:59 left.

The Highlanders were playing without guard Carlik Jones, whose buzzer-beating shot gave Radford the Big South tournament title last season. He was suspended for conduct detrimental to the...

In Buzz Williams’ first four years as coach, Virginia Tech’s basketball team competed at neutral-site tournaments in Cancun, Florida, California and New York City. This season’s excursion is shorter and falls earlier on the schedule.
That latter...

GOLF:
Buck Brittain of Tazewell won the qualifying medal Tuesday by five strokes at the Virginia State Golf Association's Senior Amateur Championship in Williamsburg. He fired a 10-under-par 132 with a pair of 66s.
The top 32 players advanced to match...

COLLEGES:
Football:
A day after James Madison fell in the FCS championship game to North Dakota State, offensive line coach Bryan Stinespring is leaving the Dukes to take the same job at Maryland, the Daily News-Record of Harrisonburg reported.
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Four ACC athletic director jobs have turned over in the last 14 months, and the hires illustrate the options Virginia has as it searches for Craig Littlepage’s successor.
Syracuse appointed a television executive and alum in ESPN’s John Wildhack. He...

Old Dominion aspires to be Western Michigan, Houston or Boise State, and Monarchs coach Bobby Wilder has scheduled accordingly. Just check his September calendar.
ODU hosts North Carolina on Sept. 16 and travels to Virginia Tech the next week. Why play...

For Old Dominion, the thrill of making its first bowl appearance might have been tempered by the fear of losing money.
ODU wouldn't have been the first to end up in the red on a bowl trip, especially with international travel involved.
Instead, thanks...

With a little more than five minutes left and his team holding a precarious four-point lead, Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder put his team’s fate in the hands of quarterback David Washington and tailback Ray Lawry.
As usual, they delivered.
Playing in...

The road to a postseason bowl has been arduous for Old Dominion’s senior class.
As ODU transitioned to the Football Bowl Subdivision, the Monarchs endured an 80-20 beating at North Carolina in 2013 and, two years later, a 49-0 home loss to Appalachian...

Offense
Both offenses revolve around their quarterbacks. Eastern Michigan's Brogan Roback, a 6-foot-3, 206-pound redshirt junior, was a rated 4-star high school player by Rivals when he was a senior in Toledo, Ohio. He has completed 193 passes for...

Last spring, citing financial concerns, a group of students and professors urged Eastern Michigan's football program to leave Division I. They said it had nothing to do with wins and losses, but given the Eagles hadn't gone to a bowl game since 1987, most...

Troy Butler was on a cruise ship with hundreds of college students a few years ago when they disembarked in Nassau for a day trip. As they walked onto the docks, Butler stopped and stared into the distance.
To the north was the shimmering Atlantis...

Temple has launched three head football coaches to Power Five jobs in the last six years. Al Golden to Miami, Steve Addazio to Boston College and Matt Rhule to Baylor.
In addition to Rhule, this season the Owls' conference, the American Athletic, saw Tom...

For those on Old Dominion's current football roster, this is unfamiliar territory. With the program's first bowl game comes practicing in the brisk air of December with Christmas decorations all around campus.
Seniors like quarterback David Washington,...

Old Dominion's first bowl opponent will be a familar one.
Eastern Michigan annonced Tuesday it has accepted a bid to the Bahamas Bowl Dec. 23 in Nassau. The Eagles (7-5) finished fourth in the Mid-American Conference's West Division.
It will be the...

NORFOLK — Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder can't figure it out. And if he can't, what chance do the rest of us have?
For the fourth consecutive game, dating back to last November, the Monarchs' defense came together when it absolutely had to. Eastern...